That is a crazy amount of work. Having to manage all those things, and knowing all of those crops, and doing all the manual labour.
This dude might be the hardest working man on the planet.
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;52184418]That is a crazy amount of work. Having to manage all those things, and knowing all of those crops, and doing all the manual labour.
This dude might be the hardest working man on the planet.[/QUOTE]
Didn't he say he works like 70 hours a week for a handful of months out of the year?
That's crazy dedication.
That guy seems swell, but I found the guy doing the interview to be a bit of a jackass. Constantly talking over the dude, not paying attention cause he'd rather look smugly into the camera (or maybe he's framing it I dunno).
I've always liked having gardens instead of lawns or yards. IIRC, lawns were considered a status symbol for the wealthy as sort of a "I have all this land but I won't use it". Always felt wrong to me, inefficient. Good to have a garden instead.
Also props to this guy, making bank, seems to be having a good time doing it. Swell dude.
[QUOTE=Gunteen8;52184668]I've always liked having gardens instead of lawns or yards. IIRC, lawns were considered a status symbol for the wealthy as sort of a "I have all this land but I won't use it". Always felt wrong to me, inefficient. Good to have a garden instead.
Also props to this guy, making bank, seems to be having a good time doing it. Swell dude.[/QUOTE]
nah, it comes from castles razing down the surrounding forest so they could see any coming attacker. whenever there's not trees, there's grass. lawns kicked off with the regular upper class (ie. rich people, but not rich enough for a castle) when yard games like golf and croquet kicked off, and whenever the upper class does something the middle and lower classes follow suit.
it didn't kick off in the states until the 40 and 50s when suburban areas started cropping up because it's a cheap thing to do with excess land between houses that looks nice, doesn't need too much maintenance, and wont fall on your roof in a hurricane.
My mom's ex boyfriend used to own a landscaping business and he made mad bank. Had two trucks and a big house and everything. I remember working with him every summer during high school and it was just terrible work, especially in the hot humid Florida weather.
It makes sense why landscapers and gardeners make all that money - people don't wanna do it themselves.
that's a big responsibility. if anything goes wrong, it's on his head, he doesn't get paid, and his reputation is shot.
he deserves more IMO. that level of planning, detail work, and knowledge of botanics isn't easy to come by.
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